and I'm sorry.. I'm a DPS, why do I have to take care about healing? If I wanted to heal - I'd roll a healer :?

And this is the very mentality that pisses off healers currently. This is not WOTLK, healing is not 100% a healer's job. It's why things like healthstones, lightwell and more added self-healing abilities exist.

Remember - You do 0 dps when you're dead. That extra ~25k healing is very easily the difference between life and death at times of high damage.

Originally Posted by Precursor

"Fall of therzane....." ....um what? if that woman fell , god help us it will be the second cataclysm

Re-targetting is hard, I know; it's not like 20k over 6 seconds could be useful to your healers

I understand how it works, and how to focus and or do what ever. It was a simple question and in no way required a smartass answer. Anything making this step easier is a good move in the right direction so that dps and tanks can stay focused on their jobs rather than trying to target the lightwell that might have mobs or friendly players standing on top of it creating targeting issues.

Also, I wonder if you could create a mouse over for the light well that allowed you to just mouse over it and hit the interact button and it work as well?

"The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil to exist because it isn't angry enough."
-Bede Jarrett (historian)

And this is the very mentality that pisses off healers currently. This is not WOTLK, healing is not 100% a healer's job. It's why things like healthstones, lightwell and more added self-healing abilities exist.

I play all 3 roles and it doesn't piss me off.. There is a difference in pop a healthstone if you;re low - and keep clicking that damn lightwell on CD or your healer is semi useless. Using things like potions, healthstone work usually after you fuck up or it's a predicted DMG (like quick topping on Chimaeron), this is not a reliable way of keeping whole raid alive. It's a help for a healers. Lightwell requires people to click on it or your priests healing will suck..
And finally our selfheals mostly work as a part of our rotation.
Again - as a DPS - I want to DPS, that means I want to be able to stay on target and cast my spells on it. Healer should heal, tank should tank. You don't want your healer to taunt bosses, you don't want your tank to do competetive DPS - roles are there for a reason.

and making more macros for it is not really a solution. It works and it's great you posted it - I might use it when we go raid with a holy priest (though I hope we wont).. But adding even more buttons to click during fight? This game already has more abilities than you can easily bind.. Adding 2 more buttons just to make your healer suck less is really bad design idea.. on my lock I use 3 bars to keep my skills and items I need to DPS/CC etc. That is 24 buttons. Then I have few more that are handy to use, some macros for target switching, focusing.. it makes a ton of things on my bars.. :/

as far as I know you can't macro the interact action.. So you need 2 macros and a keybind to use lightwell..

wait 2 macros?

yup - target lightwell
then use keybind
then - target last target

even without the last one - lightwell is still awfull design choice.. Unless they allow me to macro the use of it without loosing my target - I'm going to hate it with passion..

and I'm sorry.. I'm a DPS, why do I have to take care about healing? If I wanted to heal - I'd roll a healer :?

It's better to "act as a healer" and click a well than be dead for half of the combat and just sit there looking at your screen while the rest of your raid survives and kills the boss (they DID click the well =D)

@Demo
I don't really see how you need 24 buttons to play a lock in PvE, even if you do; you can't come up with 2 more binds? This isn't about hps, it's about effectively using the raid cd, nobody cares if the holy priest is at the bottom of the charts, but if you're dying or wasting their mana, when you could be helping out, that's when it's an issue

As I said - it's terrible design idea that I have to make sure that healer does his job well. If I suck at healing (while I'm not a healer) then I die because healer can't heal me.. Something is wrong with it. Good that you can macro it in at least some way, not everyone is an FPS player with quick and good accurancy at clicking small objects on the screen. Bad you have to do it in the first place.